All 3 Uses of
appalling
in
War and Peace
- She roused herself, and felt appalled at what she had been thinking, and before going down she went into the room where the icons hung and, her eyes fixed on the dark face of a large icon of the Saviour lit by a lamp, she stood before it with folded hands for a few moments.†
Chpt 3
- "We must go at once, at once!" she said, appalled at the thought of being left in the hands of the French.†
Chpt 10 *
- The courier who had been sent on in advance to find out where the Rostovs were staying in Yaroslavl, and in what condition Prince Andrew was, when he met the big coach just entering the town gates was appalled by the terrible pallor of the princess' face that looked out at him from the window.†
Chpt 12
Definition:
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(appalling) shockingly terrible or horrible